1 Rinse and pat dry the broccoli. 2  Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat, add the crushed red pepper and heat 1 minute. 3  Cook and stir the broccoli in the skillet until it begins to get crispy, 5 to 7 minutes.
figuratively/ literally. Figuratively means metaphorically, and literally describes something that actually happened. If you say that a guitar solo literally blew your head off, your head should not be attached to your body. But they're also going to create literally a tidal wave of data. There wasn't an actual tidal wave, just a lot of data.
Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner.Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun.However, as the term figurative language also covers unusual or imaginative word constructions (and not just word meanings), it also includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.igurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner.